Method of securing natural or artificial hair in pulp.



1.. KUBELKA. METHOD OF SECURING NATURAL 0B ARTIFICIAL IN PULP.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 18,1910.

1,000,525. I Patented Aug. 15,1911.

/ im Aizornqy TINTTED STATES PATENT QFFTCE.

LUDMILLA KUBELKA, OF VIENNA, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, ASSIGNOR 'IO 'II-IEODOR FRIEDMANN, 0F VIENNA, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 15, 1911.

Application filed July 12, 1910. Serial No. 571,618.

T 0 all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, LUDMILLA KUBELKA, a subject of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary, and resident of Vienna, in theProvince of Lower Austria and Empire of Austria- Hungary, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Method of Securing Natural or Artificial Hair in Pulp, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved method of securing natural or artificial hair in pulp.

Hitherto natural or artificial hair in order to secure it in pulp such as is used in the manufacture of toys of all kinds has been introduced into a fabric to form a kind of wig and this wig attached to the outer surface of the pulp or when the pulp could be made suitably thick and sufficiently soft as in waX heads, the hair with its ends is forced into the pulp, and glue or the like is there after applied to the upper surface. By this arrangement however the hairs adhere to one another and the natural appearance is destroyed; in addition the adhesive comes away from the pulp and the hairs drop out. Lastly wax heads on account of the low melting point of wax require to be made very thick and are therefore unsuitable for the production of toys such as dolls heads, animals bodies and the like.

According to the present invention intended for the production of toys as also for the manufacture of coilfured heads for advertising purposes, the hair can be secured directly in hard or hardening pulp not only in a very reliable manner but also in such manner that the appearance is natural while the hairs do not adhere to each other in the slightest.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 shows in elevation and Fig. 2 in cross-section. a portion of the head of a toy haired by my method; Fig. 3 shows by a perspective view the implement used in carrying out the method.

The method consists in drawing the hairs with the ends to be secured through the pulp and securing the projecting ends on the back or inner side by a coating of pulp or viscid solidfying adhesive. The method is carried into effect in such manner that the ends of the hair a to be secured in the pulp b are laid in tufts on the required portion of the pulp and the ends are drawn through the pulp with the aid of an implement 0 having a hook-shaped point 03 leaving the ends on the inner side of the pulp projecting upon which they can be secured by the application of a layer 6 of pulp or adhesive. The perforations f thereby formed on the outer side of the pulp have the appearance of pores with the hair growing therefrom and the whole assumes the appearance of natural hair. As the hairs can be passed through the pulp in any suitable direction it is possible to secure the hair in any desired position. The hair ends or hair loops projecting on the inner side or back of the pulp are also partly looped together whereby the removal of separate hairs is prevented so that the portion covered with hair can afterward be dressed and washed.

A special feature of the invention resides in this that the hair can be introduced into shaped portions where the inner side of the portion of pulp covered with hair is not open as in finished dolls heads and in animals where only an opening is provided through which after the positioning of the hair, the coating of pulp or adhesive can be applied to the inner hair ends.

Having now described my invention I declare that what I desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States is- Method of securing natural or artificial hair in pulp consisting in arranging the hair with the ends to be secured on the required part of the pulp, drawing the ends through the pulp by means of a suitable implement, leaving the ends projecting on the inner side and applying to these latter ends a coating of pulp or adhesive.

Signed at Vienna in the Province of Lower Austria and Empire of Austria-Hungary this 30th day of June A. D. 1910.

LUDMILLA KUBELKA. Witnesses:

WILHELM BERGER, Aueus'r FUGGER.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. (1. 

